Sri
Valeeshwarar Temple is one of Thevara Shivasthalam of Lord Shiva situated on
the southern banks of river Palar in Kuranganilmuttam, district of
Thiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu.In this
temple Lord Shiva worshipped in the form of a self-manifested Linga.

Theertham
– Kakkaimadu Theertham/ Vayasai Theertham – Lord Yama in the form of a crow created
a pond and worshipped Lord Veleeshwarar in this sacred land.

Mangalasasanam
– Thiru Gnana Sambandhar praised this sacred land as one of the Mukthisthalam,
which provides liberation from the cycles of birth and death.

Worshipped
by – Monkey King Vali a zealous devotee worshipped Lord Shiva in this temple,
he did not pluck the flowers of the tree where the Linga was positioned, he wobbled
the entire tree and showered the flowers on Linga.Thus, the presiding deity of this temple has
got the name Sri Koyyamalarnathar.

Goddess
Irayarvalai Ammai was worshipped by Lord Indra, Monkey King Vali and Lord Yama
in this temple.Married women worship Goddess
to have virtuous offspring and offer bangles.

The
legend has that Sage Markandeya was an ardent devotee of Lord Shiva; he had a
curse on him that he would die at the age of sixteen.He wanted to worship Lord Shiva as much as he
could before the death call arrives; he visited many shrines of Lord Shiva and
worshipped him.Finally the time has come Lord Yama arrived
on the spot and threw a closure of rope aiming at the sage while Sage
Markandeya was engrossed in worshipping Lord Shiva.But
the fastener of the rope was wrongly fallen on the Linga.Lord Shiva was furious at this and cursed
Lord Yama to turn out a crow.Thus, Sage
Markandeya was saved from the curse.Pathetically
Lord Yama prayed to Lord Shiva to remove the curse.The most compassionate Lord advised Lord Yama
to visit this sacred land and worship Him.At the divine instruction of Lord, Yama arrived at this sacred land and
created a pond, had a holy dip in the pond and worshipped Lord Shiva.

Lord
Indra was cursed by Sage Gautama for visualizing his chaste wife.He approached Lord Shiva to get rid of the
curse.Lord Shiva instructed him to
visit this holy land on the Earth. Lord Indra disguised in the form of a squirrel
and arrived on this sacred land. All
three devotees Lord Indra, Lord Yama and Monkey King Vali of Lord arrived on
this land concurrently and worshiped Lord Shiva.Lord Shiva was pleased at the devotion and
provided dharshan to his devotees and relieved from the sins of Lord Indra and
Lord Yama.The place where Monkey King
Vali (Kurangu), Lord Indra as Squirrel (Anil) and Lord Yama as a Crow (Muttam)
worshipped Lord Shiva came to known as Kuranganilmuttam.

In this
temple devotees worship Lord Valeeshwarar for eradication of sins and cure for
the illness of children/Balarishta. Worship of Lord Valeeshwarar and Goddess
Irayarvalai Ammai attains wisdom and intelligence and also provides boons to Childless
couple with virtuous offspring.

This
temple remains open from 7.00AM to 9.00AM in the morning and 5.00PM to 9.00PM
in the evenings

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